Sewage Treatment Plant
by Julius Bojos and Martin Lomibao
Philippines’ population lacks access to safe drinking water.
Millions die every year from waterborne (bacteria contaminated water) and water
washed (insufficient water for washing and personal hygiene) related diseases.
Diarrhea alone, a life-threatening symptom of a number of waterborne diseases
such as typhoid, cholera, and bacillary dysentery, kills 1.5 million people
every year - most of them children under the age of five. Malnourished children
are at greater risk.
Access to clean water is a key factor in reducing poverty,
improving health and achieving sustainable development. Improved health from
contamination-free water not only promises a better quality of life, but eases
pressure on health care systems, and can drastically reduce the number of work
days missed from ill health.
Here at De La Salle University - Dasmariñas, we have our own
way to clean our waste water with the help of the Environmental Resource
Management Center (ERMAC) which is responsible for the initiation,
implementation, supervision and evaluation of all the university's programs and
policies together with its compliance to national government standards related
to environmental management and safety, pollution control and disaster risk
reduction. This office manages the waste water of our university with the help
of a project what we call “Sewage Treatment Plant” or “STP” which is
responsible of recycling the waste water of our university, from waste water to
class C water.
The STP process have 3 steps: 1) Collecting, 2) Irritation
and 3) Filtration. First step is to collect the waste water from different
colleges, then the second step is irritation which separates the solid waste
from the liquid waste and the last step is filtration which cleans the water
through different tunnels of the Sewage Plant. The water product of this process
is directed to the river.
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